Manufacture and arrangement of parquet-flooring.



PATBNTED OCT. 3, 1905.

. H. ROMANOFF. MANUFACTURE AND ARRANGEMENT OF PARQUET FLOORING.

APPLICATION PILED MAY 22, 1905.

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HIPPOLYTE ROMANOFF, OF ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA,'ASSIGNOR TO WLADIMIR VONLARLARSKY, OF ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA.

MANUFACTURE AND ARRANGEMENT OF PARQUET-FLOORING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed May 22, 1905. Serial No. 261,652.

To all 1071/0122 it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIrroLY'rn ROMANOFF, a subject of the Emperor of Russia, and a resident of St. Petersburg, Russia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture and Arrangement of Parquet- Flooring, of which the following is a specification.

The present improvements in the manner of manufacturing and arranging parquet-flooring have for their object the attainment of considerable simplification and economy in this class of work.

The invention consists, broadly, in sticking or fastening in some other appropriate manner upon boards or strips of wood or other suitable material parquet blocks 01" plates which are formed by stamping, cutting, or sawing or otherwise from wood or other material of any desired form or design. The boards or strips employed should be selected in such a manner that the corners or the edges of the parquet blocks or plates attached to them will project on both sides of the board, so that upon laying the boards or the like so provided with parquet blocks or plates in close proximity side by side the projecting corners or sides of the blocks or plates may engage closely with each other and rest upon the adjacent boards. The laying of this kind of parquet-flooring is effected merely by nailing or otherwise attaching the boards or the like provided with the parquet blocks or plates upon a suitably-prepared floor.

On the accompanying drawings are represented some specimens of this improved parquet-flooring.

Figure 1 represents a parquet-flooring constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the strips or boards with a plurality of the parquet-blocks thereon. Fig. 3 represents a parquet-flooring with another arrangement of rectangular parquet blocks or plates. Fig. 4: represents a parquet composed of hexagonal blocks or plates, and Fig. 5 represents a parquet composed of circular blocks or plates.

The aforesaid strips or boards a may be of the same width; butit will, however, of course be understood that the width of the different strips may vary, which permits of still further variety in the form of the blocks. The only condition which must be fulfilled in all these blocks is that the separate blocks must fit together in such a manner that their sides or angles project beyond the side edges of the boards or strips to which they are attached, so that when laid down or in place the sides or angles of said blocks or plates are supported by adjoining boards or strips and that no Vacant space is left between them, so that the entire parquet may present an uninterrupted surface.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination with a base-support, of a plurality of parquet-blocks secured thereto, each block having a portion thereof projecting beyond one edge of said base-support, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a base-support, of a plurality of parquet-blocks secured thereto, each-block having portions thereof projecting beyond edges of said base-support, substantially as described.

3. The combination with an elongated basesupport, of a plurality of parquet-blocks so secured thereto as to form alternating projections, and recesses along one or more edges of the base-support.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HIPPOLYTE ROMANOFF. l/Vitnesses:

N. F. FOMIN, N. TSOHEAUTOFF. 

